The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-19
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
Savannah branch, order of the Iroa Hall,
will meet tonight.
There We're five cases at midnight for the
Mayors Court this morning.
Michael J. Cash took the oath of ale
glance in the Superior Court yesterday.
There were twenty-three deaths in the
city last week-eight of whites ard fifteen
of colcrod people.
Invitations have been issued to an exhibit
tion class exercise at the Savannah Gymna-
siam N Turner Hall this evening at 5
O'Clock
Tine directors Of the Mutual Gas Light
Company declared a quarterly dividend yes
ter,iA Ysof l2 per cent. payable on and after
May IL.
A dispatch TO the MORNING News from
Col II. s. Haines. General Manager OF the
Plant system. who Is now in Philadelphia,
statcs taat the new steamship "Olvette'
viii leave there today with Mr. Plant anda
party of friends for Havana.
a correspondent. signing himself Gone
Who Wishes TO Go wants 10 know why
gthe excursion managers do not arrange
.ther trips for weeB days so that Christian
knay 90 and take their children
The residents of Walton ward were
alarmed Yesterday by the report Of three
Apistol shots AZ first it was r1lmored that
2murdcr had been attempted. The police in
vestigated the case and found that a man
named Walsh had fired Off his pistol.
Isaac Grant tcolored) was given so or
thirty days by the Mayor Yesterday FOR oh
structing Barnard street and striking Pc
liceman J Harrington On Saturday night
Aleck Williams jcolored was sentenced to
pay 81 or take ten days for disorderly con
duct and beating his wife. The fines in six
other cases amounted to So.
The stewards Of the Union Society will
call upon their fellow citizens to-day for the
purpose Of Interest ing them in the one hun
dred and thiTty-sevcnth anniversary of tho
oldest orphan asylum in America Whit
fields Bethesda. There are now seventy
ono boys IN tine institution supported hv
Savanuah's charitable people. The Morn
rNG NEws bespcaks for the stewards a kind
reception
The schooner William Il. Keeney, Capt.
Lippincott arrived in mort Yesterday from
Perth AInboY with cargo Of railroad iron
for the Tybec railroad. Capt. Lippincott
reports having had a tedious passage and
very smooth sea all the way down A re
naTkablc fact about the Keeney is that of
the six voyages she has made this winter
from Port Royal, Savannah and Fernan-
dina, they have only consumed thirty-six
bay from the bar to Sandy Hook
H. Dan Walden was before Mayor Lester YES
'trday To complain of an assault
Nat had been made upon him
n Philip Schwarz's saloon on Bry-
m street Sunday night. Walden was
mdly cut in the head but no arrests were
made. Schwarz was put on the infolma-
Won docket for keeping open tipping
house on Sunday. Walden said that he went
into the place between and O'Clock and
while in there he was knocked down and
cash was cut in his head with a pair of brass
knuckleS. The lights were put out and he
wss hustled into the street. He went TO the
police barracks and entered a complaint, but
was told to return in the morning, which he
Aid